AltSchool’s mission is to enable all children to reach their potential. We are a public benefit corporation and a Certified B Corporation, bringing together a unique partnership of educators, engineers, and researchers to create a proprietary learning platform guided by the most comprehensive body of current educational research. AltSchool’s platform is designed to empower schools everywhere to offer personalized, whole-child learning for each student, and to enable teachers to truly understand each child—both deep and wide—so they can develop a learner-centric environment that helps each child thrive.

Headquartered in San Francisco, AltSchool operates a network of schools in California and New York, which serve as learning labs for ongoing research and development. Starting fall 2017, that network of schools expanded to include the first cohort of pilot partner schools using the AltSchool platform of products and services. We are backed by many key investors, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan’s donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, who are committed to help achieve the goal of making the best education the most accessible.

Educators at AltSchool lead work to define and refine innovative pedagogy, model impactful practices with learners, contribute to the development of the personalized learning platform, and expand impact by working with partner schools. The education team works collaboratively to craft learner-centered environments that are enabled by our platform.

Our educators view themselves as learning facilitators who are committed to deeply understanding who each learner is and what they need to reach their full potential. With this understanding, our team guides student learning through a project-based approach. We support our learners in developing a deep sense of self and ownership of their learning. Our educators focus their efforts on both academic and social emotional learning while also attending to individual growth in essential skills. They are part of a network of professionals across our lab and partner schools that share best practices, regularly provide feedback to one another and engage in continuous collaboration. In addition, our educators engage with engineers and learning designers in co-development of our tools so we can better leverage technology in support of our practices. Finally, our educators collaborate with partner schools who are similarly committed to transforming the learner experience.

AltSchool is a unique and exciting place to teach that affords educators the opportunity to make a broader impact in education, and their daily experience reflects the distinct nature of the organization. They teach in collaborative, dynamic classrooms while also being part of a broader team of technologists, educators, and experts working on AltSchool’s bigger purpose. Thus, AltSchool educators are teachers, pioneers, and platform designers.

Responsibilities

Lead a mixed-age and ability class along with your teaching team members:

Design or customize experiential, project-based learning arcs for the class to create activities that are relevant and real-world

Curate individual learning experiences based on each student’s abilities, needs, and learning approach to construct and exhibit core competencies

Utilize dynamic instructional grouping to meet the needs of all learners

Determine students’ academic and social emotional learning goals and ensure that they’re met

Use the resources of the city and community to create an education that is relevant and real

Communicate learning targets and outcomes to colleagues, parents, and students on a regular basis

Engage in bi-weekly coaching with a subset of your students to support student self-reflection and agency

Lead an advisory group with curated activities throughout the school year

Commit to building a community of child-centered educators by mentoring other educators and making regular contributions to the network, including sharing materials, best practices, research findings, etc.

Build and maintain positive, transparent partnerships with the school’s families by engaging with the community through frequent and rich communication

Collaborate with researchers, designers, technologists, and other educators to devise, participate in, and provide feedback on pilot experiments related to class design, pedagogical approach, scheduling, classroom tools and more

Collaborate with our Personalization Leads to support all learners

Accelerate the collective progress of educators engaged in similar efforts: connect and collaborate with educators at Partner Schools; serve as a thought leader who reflects and shares about the journey to create learner-centered experiences

Passion for working with and engaging children in student driven learning experiences

Belief in fostering children’s social emotional capabilities

Commitment to continuous improvement and willingness to share lessons learned

Entrepreneurial mindset and customer service orientation

Preferred Qualifications

Undergraduate or graduate degree in education

Prior experience mentoring other educators

Prior experience leading curriculum development

Prior experience partnering with other school staff members

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About AltSchool, Inc

AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.
Our team has come together because we all believe that more is possible. AltSchool provides a rich and personally meaningful education that is built for our children’s future.